Flemington Community Hub
The new Flemington Community Hub commissioned by the Glen Eira City Council is located at Debney’s Park and is part of a redevelopment of the site. The existing sports club pavilion and community centre will be demolished and replaced with the new double-story community hub. The site also accommodates a cricket oval, two soccer pitches, and an existing car park.
The vision for the hub is to create a new heart for the community and to provide a centre that brings all people together from diverse and multi-generational backgrounds. The proposed development will provide the community with a vibrant, welcoming, and flexible centre, with activity and program rooms, family facilities, creative spaces, lifelong learning spaces, consulting and office spaces, and sporting facilities. The Flemington Community Hub will be a certified 5 Star Green Star rated building.
The roof of the structure is composed of 24m spanning spotted gum glue laminated timber portal frames supporting glue laminated timber purlins. These portal frames are supported by timber external that are vertically isolated from the level one structure. The level one structure is a two-way spanning flat slab supported by block and insitu RC walls and insitu RC columns. These are then supported by a suspended ground slab with beam grillage and two way slab panels over 16m deep driven piles penetrating through Coode Island silt to the basalt below.
Architect:
Year:
Construction Budget:
Challenges:
Croxon Ramsay
2020 to 2023
$20M
The site for the building was located over an existing tip over a Coode Island silt layer and unfavorable gases were detected along with other contaminants below the surface. 16-metre-deep driven piles were required to be adopted for the foundation design as a result and this process was required to be managed closely. The suspended floor connections were also required to be sealed effectively to negate any gases potentially entering the building.
The other main challenge was resolving building compliance issues around the timber structure. This was resolved with the building surveyor by isolating the external timber columns to only support the portal frames supporting the roof structure.
Architect:
Croxon Ramsay
Year:
2020 to 2023
Construction Budget:
$20M
Challenges:
The site for the building was located over an existing tip over a Coode Island silt layer and unfavorable gases were detected along with other contaminants below the surface. 16-metre-deep driven piles were required to be adopted for the foundation design as a result and this process was required to be managed closely. The suspended floor connections were also required to be sealed effectively to negate any gases potentially entering the building.
The other main challenge was resolving building compliance issues around the timber structure. This was resolved with the building surveyor by isolating the external timber columns to only support the portal frames supporting the roof structure.